Response to conspecific and heterospecific alarm calls in mixed-species bird flocks of a Sri Lankan rainforest

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Animal Communication and Noise (2013, background): “Interestingly, birds not only understand the calls of conspecifics but they can also glean information from the alarm calls of other bird species (e.g. Krams and Krama 2002; Magrath et al. 2007; Goodale and Kotagama 2008; Haff and Magrath 2013; Wheatcroft and Price 2013) and even of primates (Rainey”
Chapter 8 Survivor Signals (2009, background): “…Babbler (Turdoides rufescens) and Greater Racket-tailed Drongos (D. paradiseus) cause babblers to move quickly away from the playback speaker after hearing their own species’ or drongo alarm calls, but drongos show no difference in response to any treatment (Goodale and Kotagama, 2008).”
Eavesdropping on other species: mutual interspecific understanding of urgency information in avian alarm calls (2010, background): “Eavesdropping on other species can provide complementary information to conspecific alarm calls so that the total amount of information available in an interspecific eavesdropping network can be greater than in a group of conspecifics (Goodale & Kotagama 2005, 2008).”